The
Lord’s Supper should never be a showy kind of pageantry. A
pastor came to Gordon Keddie and said, “The Lord’s Supper
represents “our pageantry.” Keddie responded, “This
is most unhelpful and even misleading characterization of the
sacrament.” There is to be no showy elaborate ritual. This is
what the Reformers of the 16th
century saw as a vast corruption in the so called “sacrifice of
the mass.” Dr. Loraine Boettner in his comprehensive book on
Roman Catholicism states that the mass from Rome’s perspective
is: “a glaring, elaborate, showy pageantry and drama of the
mass.” Christ sent his apostles to teach and to baptize not to
“say a mass”. (Matt. 28:19) The book of Acts and the
Epistles give us not one word about “saying a mass”. This
is the center piece and the greatest abomination of the Roman
Catholic Church.